The ride back from the truck stop felt longer than the two hours it actually took.
I sat in the cage again, but this time the silence between me and Jax wasn’t awkward — it was electric. Every time Colossus glanced over from his lead position, our eyes locked through the tinted glass like we were the only two people on the desert highway. That crooked almost-smile of his flashed once when he caught me staring, and my stomach did a full loop-de-loop.
By the time the compound fence came into view, my skin was still buzzing from the garage kisses and the promise he’d growled against my neck: Tonight. My room. No fear.
I was halfway out of the van before it even stopped rolling. Colossus was already there, swinging off his Harley and reaching for me with those massive hands that had learned
